[Bug 1837881] Re: error in gcc / g++ specs : '-pie' always added

2019-07-26 Thread JVD
I still think specifying '-fPIC' on the compile command line and '-fpic' on the link line should have the same effect as '-fno-PIE' (compile) and '-no-pie' (link). Moreover, while I see you've added documentation for '-no-pie' to gcc-7.info, there is no documentation there for '-fno-PIE' . It is

[Bug 1837881] Re: error in gcc / g++ specs : '-pie' always added

2019-07-25 Thread JVD
Fixed g++.specs that does not always add '-pie' to the link command line. But now I have to compile everything with '--specs=$my_spec_file' - why should I have to? ** Attachment added: "modified 'g++ --dumpspecs' output to NOT add '-pie'."

[Bug 1837881] [NEW] error in gcc / g++ specs : '-pie' always added

2019-07-25 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: The stock ubuntu system compiler (gcc / g++) as shipped cannot compile my program, because in its specs it adds '-pie' to the command line of EVERY collect2 invocation: Example: $ g++ -std=gnu++17 ... -fPIC -c test.C $ g++ --verbose -fPIC -fpic -o test test.o -lstdc++ -lrt

[Bug 1500395] Re: latest update breaks user CSS / Accessibility settings

2015-11-14 Thread JVD
Fixed with update of : 42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04 - my about:preferences page finally displays in non-invisible about:preferences#content settings. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1500395] [NEW] latest update breaks user CSS / Accessibility settings

2015-09-28 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: After the update to firefox 41.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 was applied on my x86_64 14.04.3 LTS system, the firefox 'about:' internal URL dialogs displayed in white text on a white background . This now includes dialogs like the "Preferences" / "Menu" dialogs. So effectively

[Bug 1409393] Re: radeon GPU lockup CP stall

2015-09-28 Thread JVD
RE: previous comment - my cables are connected and screwed in tightly. I often switch the monitors off when leaving at night. 99% of the time the machine is left running and has no problems. Sometimes, however, like again today, the X-Server HANGs !! : $ gdb /usr/bin/Xorg 1855 GNU gdb (GDB)

[Bug 1403938] Re: Sound problem with firefox

2015-08-24 Thread JVD
The KDE Mixer volume control used to work until a firefox update a few weeks ago . Then the playback stream shown in KDE Mixer changed to 'CubebUtils' , and the volume is reset to a fixed 65% for every new stream , meaning I have to open KDE Mixer and adjust the volume for every new stream .

[Bug 1463140] Re: why is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf continually being removed?

2015-06-08 Thread JVD
typo fix: because if I don't poweroff after rebooting into recovery mode, I get NO X-windows. this is a side issue though - I'd just like to stop my configuration files being removed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1463140] [NEW] why is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf continually being removed?

2015-06-08 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: Please could anyone suggest how to prevent whatever ubuntu 14.04.2 x86_64 upgrade / drivers package is removing my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file from removing it, or what this component might be . Everytime this happens, which appears to be triggered by the periodic package

[Bug 1458201] Re: please apply fix for bugzilla.mozilla.org bug : 67267

2015-05-24 Thread JVD
How did this end up as a kubuntu-meta bug ? I selected the firefox package - re-raising ... ** Tags added: firefox ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #672671 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671 ** Also affects: firefox via

[Bug 1458201] [NEW] please apply fix for bugzilla.mozilla.org bug : 67267

2015-05-23 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: See : a href=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671;https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671/a This bug is still occurring with fully up-to-date Ubuntu LTS 14.04.2 x86_64's firefox 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 : After opening a large number of pages

[Bug 1409393] Re: radeon GPU lockup CP stall

2015-03-18 Thread JVD
It just happened again , with 3.13.0-46-lowlatency #79 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1 : Radeon CP lockup stall dmesg : [393791.346730] radeon :01:00.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 1msec [393791.346741] radeon :01:00.0: GPU lockup (waiting for 0x0004 last fence id

[Bug 1409393] Re: radeon GPU lockup CP stall

2015-03-12 Thread JVD
It just happened again, this time with latest 3.13.0-46-lowlatency kernel and 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1 . The messages are slightly different : quote code [78988.537888] radeon :01:00.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 1msec [78988.537900] radeon :01:00.0: GPU lockup (waiting for

[Bug 1409393] Re: radeon GPU lockup CP stall

2015-03-12 Thread JVD
That last comment was from last week - I still had it in my firefox Restore Session and had not pressed Post Comment yet. But it just happened again today - it looks like the frequency of this bug is increasing with newer kernel, xorg-server, and xorg-drivers-radeon releases . Here is the

[Bug 1428260] Re: __USE_GNU not being set by -std=gnu11 ( struct f_owner_ex not declared )

2015-03-05 Thread JVD
re: please run: apport-collect 1428260 and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'. No. This is a host on my company's private LAN, and we are not allowed to grant access to any internal host to any external host . It should be obvious from the bug description what the

[Bug 1428260] [NEW] __USE_GNU not being set by -std=gnu11 ( struct f_owner_ex not declared )

2015-03-04 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: Not sure if this is a bug in libc6-dev (owner of /usr/include/fcntl.h) or in linux-libc-dev (owner of /usr/include/linux/header that declares struct f_owner_ex) but it definitely appears to be a bug. I am trying to compile code that uses the new fcntl interfaces :

[Bug 1409393] Re: radeon GPU lockup CP stall

2015-03-01 Thread JVD
It just happened again, this time with latest 3.13.0-46-lowlatency kernel and 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1 . The messages are slightly different : quote code [78988.537888] radeon :01:00.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 1msec [78988.537900] radeon :01:00.0: GPU lockup (waiting for

[Bug 1421219] Re: KDE desktop switching is dangerous and needs to be disabled

2015-02-18 Thread JVD
It took me a while to discover this myself, by inadvertently pressing it - I then went through every KDE hot key setting and disabled them ALL . I think the one I pressed is hidden in : System Settings - Workspace Behaviour - Virtual Desktops - Switching Tab There you see key stroke definitions

[Bug 1421219] Re: KDE desktop switching is dangerous and needs to be disabled

2015-02-12 Thread JVD
Sorry, should have added environmental information : Host: x86_64 (Haswell) 8 core i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz RAM: 16GB OS: NAME=Ubuntu VERSION=14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr Fully up-to-date as of 2015-02-12, with KDE: ii kde-plasma-desktop5:78ubuntu13

[Bug 1421219] [NEW] KDE desktop switching is dangerous and needs to be disabled

2015-02-12 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: I just lost several hours work after inadvertently pressing the KDE Desktop Switch keystroke. When I switched back to the desktop I was using, KDE informed me that Desktop #1 session was restored successfully. But all the applications I was running on that desktop lost

[Bug 1409393] Re: radeon GPU lockup CP stall

2015-02-04 Thread JVD
I've been seeing this problem also, abeit rather infrequently ( about once every 1-2 months), with all Ubuntu 14.04.1 kernels issued via updates since July 2014 . This is on my machine at work which is left on all the time and only reboots when a new kernel is installed . Machine: 8 core

[Bug 1403551] Re: localc crashes when editing .xls file

2014-12-17 Thread JVD
Oops, launchpad seems to have mangled the attachment . Here it is again as an xz compressed file. ** Attachment added: xz compressed version of file that was mangled in previous attachment https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1403551/+attachment/4282943/+files/localc_crash.log.xz

[Bug 1403551] Re: localc crashes when editing .xls file

2014-12-17 Thread JVD
I tried to open this bug against libreoffice, but launchpad has decided to open it against apport . Oh well - I hope this gets changed - I can't see how to change it. Is there any bugzilla interface to Ubuntu's bug tracker ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1403551] [NEW] localc crashes when editing .xls file

2014-12-17 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: The localc of 1:4.2.7-0ubuntu2 , recently updated last week, is not usable . It crashes when attempting to edit an XLS file. Previous versions edited the same XLS file without a problem - in fact, editing this file weekly is the only reason I need to use localc . This week I

[Bug 1403551] Re: localc crashes when editing .xls file

2014-12-17 Thread JVD
Here's the strace file gathered when localc crashes . ** Attachment added: the strace file gathered when localc crashes https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1403551/+attachment/4282941/+files/localc_crash.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1398033] Re: python breaks gdb

2014-12-03 Thread JVD
Hmm, it seems now the update system is also affected by the $PYTHONPATH environment variable setting - with PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7:/usr/local/lib/python2.7 : $ apt-get dist-upgrade fails with : Fetched 41.2 MB in 15s (2,623 kB/s) (Reading

[Bug 1398033] Re: python breaks gdb

2014-12-03 Thread JVD
the source is at : http://bugs.python.org/issue11946 : python.c ** Bug watch added: Python Roundup #11946 http://bugs.python.org/issue11946 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1398033

[Bug 1398033] Re: python breaks gdb

2014-12-03 Thread JVD
correction: meaning : find the file under any directory in $PATH that starts with 'python' and ends with a decimal ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1398033 Title: python breaks

[Bug 1398033] Re: python breaks gdb

2014-12-03 Thread JVD
The same approach could be used to make a program that explictly loads eg. python3.4 execuable with correct $PYTHONPATH based on for example $PYTHON_VERSION environment variable setting . Another approach might be to convert all scripts that require python3+ to explicitly start with

[Bug 1398033] Re: python breaks gdb

2014-12-02 Thread JVD
Correction : I recommend downloading ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.8.1.tar.xz and building GDB 7.8.1 with --prefix=/usr/local --without-python, to -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1398033] Re: python breaks gdb

2014-12-02 Thread JVD
Yes, the only reason I set PYTHONPATH is because the program I was running ( an ELF64 executable ) actually internally runs Python which must have access to its python modules installed under /usr/local/lib/python2.7 . But it appears there is no way to debug such an executable with the standard

[Bug 1398033] [NEW] python breaks gdb

2014-12-01 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: The gdb program fails with settings such as PYTHONPATH in the environment. I have no interest in using python or in using gdb to debug python programs . I want to use GDB to debug a normal GCC built executable, yet these internal gdb python dependencies prevent me from

[Bug 1398033] Re: python breaks gdb

2014-12-01 Thread JVD
$ cat /etc/os-release NAME=Ubuntu VERSION=14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr ... $ dpkg-query -l python gdb Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name

[Bug 856993] [NEW] NP_GetMIMEDescription returns NULL in x86_64 instrumented Citrix ICA client npwrapper.npica.so

2011-09-22 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: The Citrix ICA client firefox plugin 32-bit i386 npica.so fails to be instrumented correctly by nspluginwrapper - the generated npwrapper.npica.so's const char* NP_GetMIMEDescription() function returns NULL, while the original i386 npica.so's version does not: $ cat

[Bug 856993] Re: NP_GetMIMEDescription returns NULL in x86_64 instrumented Citrix ICA client npwrapper.npica.so

2011-09-22 Thread JVD
Citrix ICA client download URL ( for linuxx86-11.100.158406.tar.gz ) : https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=2309164productId=1689163ntref=clientcenter#top -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 721469]

2011-06-02 Thread JVD
Sorry if my previous Comment #18 in any way deterred Ulrich from applying something like Kee's patch of Comment #4, which makes perfect sense to me and which is really needed to fix this bug - please, Ulrich, if you haven't already done so, apply something like attachment #5253 of Comment #4.

[Bug 721469]

2011-06-02 Thread JVD
typo in previous Comment #21: non-native-system ld.so (NOT /lib/ld-linux.so.1) with '-nostdlibs' should be : non-native-system ld.so (NOT /lib/ld-linux.so.2) with '-nostdlib' Anyway, I'm going to be compiling the latest glibc from GIT soon , after I build the latest stable

[Bug 775215] [NEW] 'make check' cannot be run as super-user or it fails

2011-05-01 Thread JVD
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: upstart Hi - got this error when running make check as root - does not happen when running as non-root : ...with error after modification of job

[Bug 435352] Re: regression: uvcvideo module makes cannot reset port error on usb with bison webcam (5986:0203): USB and suspend fails

2009-11-07 Thread JVD
Posting for the first time, so please pardon any violation of posting conventions. I had Jaunty till yesterday, and after installing auto-updates, my fully functional Logitech RX720 wireless laser mouse stopped working. I subsequently upgraded to Karmic, and the problem persists. The mouse works